Very sad.
I don't recall saying that there were never circumstances where someone might need to reinstall the software.
And I do agree it's a pretty high irritation. If I hadn't already bought the software for the year, I'd probably buy something else.
HOWEVER, I don't see why so many people are crying that the sky is falling.
As for flooded basement, I do find it somewhat hard to believe that this has never happened before. While my house has never flooded, my parents' house did regularly when I was a child, and I learned a looong time ago not to leave important papers in harms way. Obviously some harms are easier to avoid than others, but leaving important papers near the floor of the basement without protecting them from moisture seems a bit...obvious.
Yep. 6 sheets of paper each year ads up to...let's see...that's one tree every 3,667 years (check item 3 for the 22000 sheets of paper == one tree metric). Damn, I feel so wasteful.
Or even if they're not allergic to chickens per se, There are lots of egg allergies. The real question is, how many are allergic to BOTH horses & eggs?
1) I pay a whole hell of a lot more than $.25 for my cable. 2) I don't have to read the ads in the paper if I don't want to. 3) Nobody has to pick that cable programming up and carry it to my house. Once the cable is run, 95% of the effort of delivering content to my door is done. So much for distribution costs, eh?
If you mean "middleman costs" too goddamn bad. Why should I be concerned about their bad business models? Not to mention that if I had an option to pay more to avoid the advertising, you betcha I would. Too bad they don't seem to think about what the customer wants....
So I picked HBO as the premier premier channel and get slapped (though I'd swear I've seen ads between movies on HBO). In either case, I pay extra to get the channels that include FoodTV, Cartoon Network, etc. and god knows THEY have plenty of ads. If it were simply a matter of ads only on the basic channels, or a flat fee for everything that has ads, I'd be pretty happy. But it's not. I "get" to watch billions of repetetive moronic ads on every channel I pay extra to have the "privelege" of watching, with the possible exception of HBO.
Oh, and I suppose networks like Nickelodeon, who can't be bothered to air Invader Zim (a favorite in my house) at a consistent time from week to week if at all, really deserve my time to track down the show through all the dreck they usually replace it with along with making me watch their commercials. Sorry, but I'm very happy to swap shows over the net so I can see animation that really amuses me without the hassle of an insane entertainment provider.
I was really "amused" by the Heritage foundation's defense of the program. As if:
The government has never lied about its use of information on citizens in the past.
John Poindexter in particular has never lied about his activities in the past.
Citizens who are abiding by the laws of the land here in the US have not been singled out for harassment because of behavior that embarasses or upsets those in power.
Honestly, so what that they aren't keeping their own dossiers on us, and instead are correlating other "private" databases? Anyone with half a brain about database usage in any large organization realizes that it's ridiculous to gather redundant information when you can simply tie together what your organization already has access to. If that organization is the US Government and the sources are everyone who you do business with, that's supposed to not be a threat just because the Government isn't making its own copy??? Ludicrous.
I'm still a sprint customer, but only because the number and rate of change of all the other plans has prevented me from figuring out who would be better.
Sprint screwed me when I moved; I had a plan that worked well for me (corporate plan: $9.95 a month for service, pay for all minutes, try not to use it much. Minutes were reasonably cheap.), but when I moved to a new city, they doubled the cost of the minutes without saying that was what they were doing. When I *do* get around to checking the other plans, Sprint is no longer in the running.
I don't know that the lit-crit circles have any application to reality. Tim Powers, for example wrote several bad novels (at least so I presume, they haven't been reprinted in ages), then several magnificent ones (The Drawing of the Dark through Last Call) and then a handful of bad ones (attempts to do "sequels" if you will to Last Call that in my opinion just didn't work). I think it's simply that everyone has a peak and valleys on either side. Some writers peak early, some don't.
I recently finished reading reMix by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. Tagline: "William Gibson meets Quentin Tarantino". He's got a lot of books on the shelf at Borders right now, though this one a reprint of a book frim '97. I'll say that it seems like he took a lot of other ideas I've seen in other cyberpunk and "remixed" them, but maybe that's the point. It was definitely a fun ride, even though not particularly original in some dimensions.
As for Cyberpunkish writing in F&SF, not sure what you mean. I'm about 18 months behind reading my subscription, but I haven't read many cyberpunkish stories in most of the two years prior to that.
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Don't ride around with foreign terrorists( who DONT deserve a trial, they are at war with the US ).
Now, the MOST fun part of this statement is the fact that the current administration is really good at declaring someone a terrorist, and then saying they can't prove it, because the proof is "sensetive information". If Good Ole Billy Bob Clinton had tried this, the republicans would have screamed their heads off about coverups. But do they object to their own boy doing it? Of course not.
See, if you can't prove that I'm a terrorist, in public, you ought not be allowed to take my rights away just on your say so.
Do I believe that all such labelled terrorists are innocent? Hell no. But by the same token, I don't believe they're all guilty either, and those who are not aren't being given any opportunity to prove their innocence because of the heavy-handed big brother tactics.
At this point, if it were really true that the terrorists big bugaboo was our freedoms, then Bush has done more to help them to victory than Osama ever did.
Do keep in mind that they were using the Libertarians', not the libertarians. You and I, we're libertarians. But the Libertarian Party is a bunch of Randroids who do apparently believe that a Corporation Can Do No Wrong (assuming it's held to its contracts).
Unfortunately, this is what sells these days. they wouldn't be doin it if it wasn't making money.
I think it's just a matter of this is what makes money today. It's easy to make money selling total crap if your cost for entry is so low it doesn't matter if only 1% actually pay. Clearchannel is the radio equivalent of SPAM.
Opponents of the proposed rules fear
that, taken together, they ultimately could lead to a few powerful conglomerates controlling the flow of
electronic information, from programming of television and radio news and entertainment to owning the pipes
that connect people to the Internet.
Which is of course what you would want if you were trying to subvert democracy and freedom...a task some members of the current administration have already made great inroads on.
Try using the down arrow, next to the back button. Unlike Netscrape/Mozilla where that is identical to the top level "go", in Phoenix, the down arrow does what you want, and the Go menu does what this article suggests is good. The best of both worlds!
Just because I used alcohol and heroin as my primary physical addiction examples doesn't mean there aren't others. Nicotine is one of those. It definitely has medically measurable physical addiction. So do vicadin, morphine, etc. Twinkies, video games, etc. absolutely do not, and some drugs (marijuana, LSD) don't either. Obviously, there are degrees in both physical and the so-called psychological addictions. Heroin is much quicker to physically hook you in than alcohol, for most people, etc.
It is important to make a distinction between physical and psychological in my opinion; not because physical addiction suddenly crosses the line beyond personal resonsibility (you are still capable of recognizing the physical nature of the addiction and taking action to correct it, after all), but because of the way society treats addiction. I think it is ludicrous to be treating "sex addicts" or "junk food addicts" with the same seriousness and medical attention as real drug addicts (including alcohol) with real physical addictions. Those who succumb to psychological addictions may well need some treatment to help bolster their personal responsibility, but the treatment doesn't have a damn thing to do with the addiction--it has to do with the underlying depression or whatever other issue they're hiding from by purusing the so-called addiction. Whereas those who have been foolish enough to put themselves into the path of real addictions (nicotine, alcohol, narcotics) do need direct treatment for those addictions before addressing the issues that led them to choose that path.
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And articulate too. I'm sure glad I'm not one of your clients.
That's an amazing lack of motivation you've got there. Involving....how many words and button presses? I'm impressed.
Not too hard to take paper offsite either, eh? And a lot less complex to reproduce.
Very sad. I don't recall saying that there were never circumstances where someone might need to reinstall the software. And I do agree it's a pretty high irritation. If I hadn't already bought the software for the year, I'd probably buy something else. HOWEVER, I don't see why so many people are crying that the sky is falling. As for flooded basement, I do find it somewhat hard to believe that this has never happened before. While my house has never flooded, my parents' house did regularly when I was a child, and I learned a looong time ago not to leave important papers in harms way. Obviously some harms are easier to avoid than others, but leaving important papers near the floor of the basement without protecting them from moisture seems a bit...obvious.
Waste some more trees, you fucking republican.
Yep. 6 sheets of paper each year ads up to...let's see...that's one tree every 3,667 years (check item 3 for the 22000 sheets of paper == one tree metric). Damn, I feel so wasteful.
Why doesn't anyone here understand this? The only really serious problem I see is for people who need to re-file for some reason; that would suck.
Or even if they're not allergic to chickens per se, There are lots of egg allergies. The real question is, how many are allergic to BOTH horses & eggs?
2) I don't have to read the ads in the paper if I don't want to.
3) Nobody has to pick that cable programming up and carry it to my house. Once the cable is run, 95% of the effort of delivering content to my door is done. So much for distribution costs, eh?
If you mean "middleman costs" too goddamn bad. Why should I be concerned about their bad business models? Not to mention that if I had an option to pay more to avoid the advertising, you betcha I would. Too bad they don't seem to think about what the customer wants....
So I picked HBO as the premier premier channel and get slapped (though I'd swear I've seen ads between movies on HBO). In either case, I pay extra to get the channels that include FoodTV, Cartoon Network, etc. and god knows THEY have plenty of ads. If it were simply a matter of ads only on the basic channels, or a flat fee for everything that has ads, I'd be pretty happy. But it's not. I "get" to watch billions of repetetive moronic ads on every channel I pay extra to have the "privelege" of watching, with the possible exception of HBO.
Yah, that's why they charge extra for HBO, it's so much harder to drag that extra signal to my house.
Oh, and I suppose networks like Nickelodeon, who can't be bothered to air Invader Zim (a favorite in my house) at a consistent time from week to week if at all, really deserve my time to track down the show through all the dreck they usually replace it with along with making me watch their commercials. Sorry, but I'm very happy to swap shows over the net so I can see animation that really amuses me without the hassle of an insane entertainment provider.
I must be imagining that monthly cable bill then, right?
- The government has never lied about its use of information on citizens in the past.
- John Poindexter in particular has never lied about his activities in the past.
- Citizens who are abiding by the laws of the land here in the US have not been singled out for harassment because of behavior that embarasses or upsets those in power.
Honestly, so what that they aren't keeping their own dossiers on us, and instead are correlating other "private" databases? Anyone with half a brain about database usage in any large organization realizes that it's ridiculous to gather redundant information when you can simply tie together what your organization already has access to. If that organization is the US Government and the sources are everyone who you do business with, that's supposed to not be a threat just because the Government isn't making its own copy??? Ludicrous.Sprint screwed me when I moved; I had a plan that worked well for me (corporate plan: $9.95 a month for service, pay for all minutes, try not to use it much. Minutes were reasonably cheap.), but when I moved to a new city, they doubled the cost of the minutes without saying that was what they were doing. When I *do* get around to checking the other plans, Sprint is no longer in the running.
I don't know that the lit-crit circles have any application to reality. Tim Powers, for example wrote several bad novels (at least so I presume, they haven't been reprinted in ages), then several magnificent ones (The Drawing of the Dark through Last Call) and then a handful of bad ones (attempts to do "sequels" if you will to Last Call that in my opinion just didn't work). I think it's simply that everyone has a peak and valleys on either side. Some writers peak early, some don't.
As for Cyberpunkish writing in F&SF, not sure what you mean. I'm about 18 months behind reading my subscription, but I haven't read many cyberpunkish stories in most of the two years prior to that.
Don't ride around with foreign terrorists( who DONT deserve a trial, they are at war with the US ).
Now, the MOST fun part of this statement is the fact that the current administration is really good at declaring someone a terrorist, and then saying they can't prove it, because the proof is "sensetive information". If Good Ole Billy Bob Clinton had tried this, the republicans would have screamed their heads off about coverups. But do they object to their own boy doing it? Of course not.
See, if you can't prove that I'm a terrorist, in public, you ought not be allowed to take my rights away just on your say so.
Do I believe that all such labelled terrorists are innocent? Hell no. But by the same token, I don't believe they're all guilty either, and those who are not aren't being given any opportunity to prove their innocence because of the heavy-handed big brother tactics.
At this point, if it were really true that the terrorists big bugaboo was our freedoms, then Bush has done more to help them to victory than Osama ever did.
Who needs cameras on light posts anyway? They're too easy to avoid.....
Do keep in mind that they were using the Libertarians', not the libertarians. You and I, we're libertarians. But the Libertarian Party is a bunch of Randroids who do apparently believe that a Corporation Can Do No Wrong (assuming it's held to its contracts).
I think it's just a matter of this is what makes money today. It's easy to make money selling total crap if your cost for entry is so low it doesn't matter if only 1% actually pay. Clearchannel is the radio equivalent of SPAM.
Which is of course what you would want if you were trying to subvert democracy and freedom...a task some members of the current administration have already made great inroads on.
and if you put the confetti in seperate bags disposed of in seperate locations, so much the better :-)
Try using the down arrow, next to the back button. Unlike Netscrape/Mozilla where that is identical to the top level "go", in Phoenix, the down arrow does what you want, and the Go menu does what this article suggests is good. The best of both worlds!
I think Custer's Revenge also justly deserves it's place at #1 no matter how old it is.
It is important to make a distinction between physical and psychological in my opinion; not because physical addiction suddenly crosses the line beyond personal resonsibility (you are still capable of recognizing the physical nature of the addiction and taking action to correct it, after all), but because of the way society treats addiction. I think it is ludicrous to be treating "sex addicts" or "junk food addicts" with the same seriousness and medical attention as real drug addicts (including alcohol) with real physical addictions. Those who succumb to psychological addictions may well need some treatment to help bolster their personal responsibility, but the treatment doesn't have a damn thing to do with the addiction--it has to do with the underlying depression or whatever other issue they're hiding from by purusing the so-called addiction. Whereas those who have been foolish enough to put themselves into the path of real addictions (nicotine, alcohol, narcotics) do need direct treatment for those addictions before addressing the issues that led them to choose that path.